by Gabriel Taylor

Created on: April 05, 2011

“The Vernal Dancer”

A fair haired youth preps for her performance

Wearing a gown of flowers about to bloom

She will upon a white stage do a dance  

A dance to announce winter’s end

Look there upon that sage is the Vernal Dancer

Have you ever seen such a beauty?

Look closely at this youthful beauty

And don’t hope for a second performance

She is a different sort of dancer

With her dress made of a flower’s bloom.

For there will come an end

And the dancer will end with the dance

But how wonderful, how joyful a dance

Look at her steps, she moves with such beauty

And the stage turns green when the First Act is at an end  

Now comes the second act of the Performance

She enters with her dress in full Bloom

But is this the same Vernal Dancer?

Our lady is no longer a youthful Dancer

Her energy is less, but graceful still is her dance

Such is the fate of all flowers that bloom

They age, they whither, and lose their beauty

But look how it does not affect the Performance

Tears will fill my eyes when she and the dance end

And so the Second Act is at an End  

And enters an elderly dancer

Yet there is still much left of the Performance

Do not be fooled and think in old age she cannot dance

For in wrinkled faces there is still beauty

As the withered flower can still bloom

And this dancer is a flower in bloom

I pray for this dance not to end

For in old age she still performs in beauty

A now aged, but still beautiful dancer

Whose steps are more graceful then when she began the dance

Give ovation dear friends, for this performance

For this angel of beauty with a dress of flowers in bloom  

Applaud dear friends for the performance is at an end  

Bowing, our silver haired dancer retires from her dance

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